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@FeelsGuy2003 I'm pretty sure he did quite a few things wrong. He threw his life away, which would put you on level 7 for violence against himself. He's also being rended by Satan on the lowest level in one of Satans 3 heads. The other heads (I believe) are Brutus and Cassus.

“The same Dante who put Judas in the depths of hell also said that all God needs is a single tear of repentance to save a sinner.”

@fandompulse "I looked at it and thought this isn't going to work because, if people like him enough, they're going to want him to come back and they're going to assume somehow he gets out of it." Why would this be a bad thing? I don't rightly get it.

George Lucas on his original vision for Darth Maul: "At one point, when Obi-Wan kills Darth Maul, he just fell in the pit. I looked at it and thought this isn't going to work because, if people like him enough, they're going to want him to come back and they're going to assume somehow he gets out of it. So I had to cut him in half to say that this guy's gone, he's history, he ain't coming back. I'll come up with another apprentice. The whole issue of having apprentices, poor Darth Sidious trying to replenish his apprentice supply, is one of the main plot points." Should Star Wars have stuck to this original vision?

@CrazyyHub The magic of DEI in action

I think its safe to say that cop is getting sued...

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla I was worried there weren't enough old people on the road. Thanks.

This 93 year old has found new freedom after she bought a new @Tesla Model Y with FSD. She also uses Grok navigation. "Although she has always been a good driver, my mom can now drive without the fear or fatigue that can naturally come with age. No more relying on others for every trip. No more feeling stuck. This is true mobility that can spark new adventures in a still adventurous women!" (via Dan Doyle's Family Channel. Full video below)

@TimothyImholt I thought it was good, but not exactly great. I still remember the ending as kind of the opposite of the phenomenal "A Canticle for Leibowitz" and feeling kind of not quite sure about it.

Rereading Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Surely some of you have read this one.

@twibuznew If there is a way to defend against that leg trap and throw, I'd like to hear it.

@exQUIZitely Anyone who spent all available time trying to free up conventional memory for a game to run knew autoexec.bat and config.sys intimately.

I know gaming is much more "convenient" these days. No more fiddling with AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files. No fine-tuning HIMEM.SYS. No IRQ conflicts with your sound card. You don’t need a boot disk anymore. Juggling hard drive space? Forget it - drives now come in terabytes, not megabytes. Dealing with a 5.25" floppy, a 3.5" floppy, and a CD-ROM drive all crammed into one case? What a drag. These days, you just click a button and the game downloads and installs itself. Saving up for that shiny new VGA card to replace your trusty old EGA? Not a thing anymore. And yet, if you ask older gamers who lived through the 80s and 90s, most of us actually enjoyed customizing and troubleshooting our machines. It was part of the experience - part of the joy and excitement. Sure, it involved a lot of trial and error and plenty of frustrating “OMFG, why isn’t this working?!” moments… but when it finally did work, the reward was so much sweeter. Finally freeing up those last couple of KB in your 640K base memory? Replacing the pathetic PC speaker with a real sound card? Pure ecstasy. Especially when your “Command HQ” eventually looked like this… oh, the glory days! Too all you OGs out there, I hope you experienced it that way too.

@justindubinmd Obviously fake - I can read both their handwriting.

Currently in a parking spot war with another physician whom I don’t know. First picture is an anonymous letter left on my car after parking in a non-assigned “doctors only spot” Second is a pic of me responding to the letter, leaving it on my car today with my managers card added with THE NEW LETTER THEY LEFT ME TODAY in response to my letter. Absolutely insane, leave your name so we can talk like humans. Parking in this spot FOREVER AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME😂😂

@MuseumCommodore Played it quite a bit back in the day - highly addictive. Went back and finished it last year through the magic of save states, but still glad I can say I completed it. Doesn't get enough praise for the audio, which is perfect.

The Sword of Fargoal was released in 1983 for the Commodore 64 by Epyx, following its initial debut on the VIC-20 in 1982. Developed by Jeff McCord, it evolved from his earlier BASIC game Gammaquest II, inspired by a high school Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Who played this?

@DrClownPhD Yah, and he puts moose in his hair for her also! What a joke!

This man is about to get his d*ck sucked like never before.

@JomboyMedia Lucky kid but I can't say much for his girlfriend. Yeesh!

Kid's whole year was just made

@MuseumCommodore In answer to your prayers, God would probably remind you it's "LOAD "*",8,1

Commodore 64 Floppy: Insert disk, type LOAD"$",8,1, press RETURN—and pray it works! What’s the one moment from this game you’ll never forget?

@Andrewnsnyder I would only accept him in the movie if they also included the Barrow-Downs. It's hard to explain but you can't have someone so light without it being balanced out by something so dark.

I will judge you based on your opinion of this man.

@fandompulse Their sole purpose would be destroy the central messaging of LOTR. They have an agenda, and they don't care if they burn billions to get it across.

The mainstream media is floating the idea that Lord of the Rings should be remade like the HBO Max Harry Potter series is going. Do you have faith in modern Hollywood to do Tolkien justice?

@CorpseKings Everything in rpgs should be fun. No exceptions. Encumbrance? Toss it. Travel? Toss it. Healing? Instant.

Is Encumbrance even a fun mechanic in RPG's? How can it be improved? 💪

@BishStrick Perfectly said.

Statement regarding Mrs. Carrie Prejean Boller   In recent days, I have become aware of the removal of Mrs. Carrie Prejean Boller from the Presidential Religious Liberty Commission, along with the public accusations that have followed. After reviewing her account and the circumstances surrounding this matter, I believe it is necessary to speak plainly.   Ms. Boller has been treated unjustly.   A Catholic woman, speaking from a well-formed conscience and in fidelity to the teachings of the Church, has been publicly criticized and removed – yet no clear, substantiated reason has been provided. Such a lack of transparency does not serve justice. It damages reputations and undermines trust.   More troubling still is the apparent cause: that she raised legitimate questions about Zionism and defended the simple truth that Catholics are not bound to any political ideology.   Let me be clear.   The Catholic Church does not teach that the modern State of Israel holds a divine mandate that must be supported by all believers. Nor does the Church teach that opposition to political Zionism is inherently antisemitic. These are not doctrines of the Catholic faith.   At the same time, the Church unequivocally rejects all hatred toward the Jewish people. Every human person is to be loved, defended, and treated with dignity. But this truth must not be distorted. To question the policies or actions of a modern nation – any nation – is not hatred. It is a moral responsibility when innocent life is at stake.   We are witnessing great suffering in the Holy Land. Innocent men, women, and children – especially in Gaza – have endured immense devastation. To speak on behalf of human life, wherever it is threatened, is not political extremism. It is fidelity to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.   Mrs. Boller did what many are now afraid to do: she spoke.   She spoke for Catholics who are increasingly pressured to conform to political narratives that do not reflect the fullness of our faith. She spoke to ensure that antisemitism is not wrongly conflated with legitimate moral concern. She spoke for the dignity of all human life – Jew and Palestinian alike.   For this, she has been mischaracterized.   It is especially disheartening when such treatment appears to come, in part, from those within the Church who should be the first to defend the faithful when they speak truthfully and in good conscience. Shepherds are called to protect, not to abandon; to clarify, not to confuse; to stand with the sheep, especially when they are under attack.   Silence in the face of injustice is not prudence. It is a failure of charity and truth. Therefore, I express my support for Mrs. Carrie Prejean Boller.   I affirm her right, as a Catholic and as an American, to speak clearly about matters of faith, morality, and public life without being unjustly labeled or removed without explanation. I also call for greater clarity and fairness from those responsible for her removal, so that truth – not speculation – may prevail.   This moment calls for courage.   Not political courage, but Christian courage – the kind that stands firmly in truth while remaining rooted in charity. We must reject hatred in all its forms, but we must also reject the misuse of that charge to silence those who speak in defense of life and moral truth.   Let us pray for peace in the Holy Land – for Jews, for Palestinians, and for all who suffer. And let us pray for the Church, that she may always speak with clarity, charity, and unwavering fidelity to Jesus Christ, who is the Truth.   In Christ, Bishop Joseph E. Strickland

@MuseumCommodore The creativity came from the confinement. They had only so much to work with, and they did amazing and surprising stuff. It was an incredible time!

Who remembers being surprised to see "Directory Art" after you typed: LOAD "$", 8 LIST Instead of a boring list of filenames and block counts, the entire directory screen transformed into a beautiful piece of directory art (dir art / d/art). The surprise hit hard the first time you saw it on a cracked game disk; I was like, "What just happened?!" The drive's "directory" isn't a normal file — when you ask for "$" (the special filename meaning "show directory"), the drive generates a fake BASIC program on the fly. The first two bytes are the load address (like any PRG file), then it spits out tokenized BASIC lines: line numbers (those 18, 40, etc.), the block counts as "PRINT" statements, filenames in quotes, file types like PRG or DEL, and finally "107 BLOCKS FREE." and "READY." as the last "lines." Normally this just looks like a messy program listing when you LIST it. But clever sceners realized: "Hey, we can overwrite those 'lines' with PETSCII block characters (like the diamond borders, checker patterns, hearts, etc.) while keeping the structure intact so the drive still thinks it's a valid directory." They used deleted files (type DEL) or carefully placed dummy entries to draw in the 16-column filename area, turning the directory into ASCII/PETSCII art. When this popped up on your C64, it was amazing. Who remembers seeing directory art on their Commodore 64?

@overton_news Like he's not part of the same skit.

Mask off moment. Speaker Mike Johnson QUESTIONS whether Senate Republicans actually read the bill they passed to the House before heading on recess. Johnson then turned to the cameras and read a jaw-dropping section aloud for the media. JOHNSON: “This gambit that was done last night is a JOKE.” “I’m quite convinced that it can’t be that every Senate Republican read the language of this bill, and I’m going to just read you one excerpt of it, because it’s pretty alarming, and it says everything that you need to know.” “In section four…this is on page two of the bill….” “It says, ‘The contents printed under the headings of this bill, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border security operations under the heading of US Customs and Border Patrol and Protection shall have no force or effect for purposes of this act and amounts specified in the final bill under the subheading border security operation, and under the heading U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and under the headings of US Immigration and Customs enforcement, in the Department of Homeland Security shall be...ZERO.’” “We’re not doing that.”

@WomenBeingAwful 35?

@exQUIZitely I'd go with Westwood for the diversity of quality titles. Darklands, Command and Conquer, Lands of Lore, etc.

You wake up as Thanos and can undo the demise/closure/sale of one of these game studios. Doing so will revive it to its former glory at the very peak of their power - which would you choose?